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Sunday, June 15
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Source: Telegraph , Independent , AFP , BBC News of a religious ceremony last month at an Anglican church in London that celebrated the civil partnership of two priests is causing a ruckus in London. Picking up the story first published by the Telegraph , the ceremony is called "the first gay marriage" by the Independent because of the language used in the ceremony. Sunday Telegraph claims "this is the first time a vicar has performed a 'wedding ceremony', using a traditional marriage liturgy, with readings, hymns and a Eucharist." The vicar who performed it insists...
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Thursday, June 05
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Source: USA Today Six in 10 Americans say same-sex marriage is "strictly a private decision" between two people, according to a Gallup Poll conducted for USA Today . According to the paper, respondents were asked whether the decision to marry should "strictly be a private decision" between the two people who want to marry or if the government has the right to pass laws to "prohibit or allow" such marriages between two people. It's an odd survey question since civil marriage is a contractual matter governed by state law. It's not clear how the others think the...
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Wednesday, May 28
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Source: Clovis News Journal , Clovis News Journal , KOB-TV , Associated Press via News9West CLOVIS, N.M.-- Administrators of the school district here promise to give students at the local high school a lesson in official censorship next year. They say administrators will exert greater control over next year's high school yearbook after student editors of the publication included photographs of two lesbian couples in this year's edition. The pictures that caused the big stir show two lesbian couples along with nine straight couples in a feature on relationships. Student editor in chief Maggie...
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Friday, April 25
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Source: Hollywood Reporter , Variety Asia HONG KONG – Singapore regulators have fined state TV broadcaster MediaCorp TV Channel 5 for what the regulators said was a show "promoting homosexuality". MediaCorp TV Channel 5 has been fined S$15,000 (US$11,072) by the Media Development Authority (MDA) for airing an episode of the series, "Find and Design" that it saw as "normalizing" and "promoting" a gay lifestyle. In the episode concerned, aired January 13, the host helped a gay couple to transform their game room into a new nursery for their adopted baby. "The...
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Wednesday, April 23
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Source: MetroPulse , New York Times KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Nobody who knows the area's football history disputes the accomplishments of Jackie Walker, a local high school football star and pioneering all-American linebacker at Tennessee from 1969 through ’71. At Fulton High School here, he averaged 23 tackles a game his senior season. He went on to become the first African-American football player in the Southeastern Conference to be named an all-American and the first to captain an SEC team. And almost four decades after his college career ended, and six years after his death, Walker remains...
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Monday, April 21
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Source: Gay Financial Network , BusinessWire (press release) For gays who have traditionally been on the cutting edge of tech -- we have long-been cited as early adopters of technology observes market researchers like Forrester -- the reading of blogs on a regular basis has become de rigueur , a necessary component for being in the know. When asked, just over half (51 percent) of the gay and lesbian respondents reported reading some type of blog, compared to 36 percent of heterosexual adults. A similar question on blog readership also was asked in November 2006, and at that time 32 percent of gay...
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Friday, April 18
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Source: Associated Press via CNN , E! Online King shooting Lance Bass doesn't want others to stay silent as he did. He wants the youth of America to get in sync with sexual tolerance. So he's made a public service announcement for the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN). The erstwhile 'N Syncer filmed the announcement to urge students to stop the bullying, harassment and discrimination occurring in schools. [See YouTube video of the announcement at the bottom of this post.] "Everyday, thousands of students are silenced," Bass says in the spot. "They're...
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Thursday, April 10
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Source: San Francisco Business Times , CitizenCrain Gay and lesbian media portal PlanetOut Inc. agreed to sell its magazine and book publishing business to Here Networks for $6 million in cash. PlanetOut publishes Out and Advocate and several other magazines, but wants to return its focus to its web sites gay.com and planetout.com. San Francisco-based PlanetOut signed a letter of intent with Regent Releasing, an affiliate of New York-based Here, which is a gay and lesbian television network, San Francisco Business Times reports. Blogger Chris Crain, former editor of Washington Blade , notes that...
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Thursday, April 10
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Source: Advocate In an interview released today, Sen. Barack Obama, the frontrunner Democratic presidential nomination, said he'd be a strong advocate for LGBT interests elected in November. "I reasonably can see 'don't ask, don't tell' eliminated," the senator told Advocate news editor Kerry Eleved in an talk conducted Tuesday. "I think that I can help usher through an Employment Non-Discrimination Act and sign it into law." He said he'd make that federal employees in lesbian or gay partnerships have are able to transfer health or pension benefits "the...
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Wednesday, April 09
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by Robin Evans, seaQwa editor Philadelphia Gay News last week made a splash not only by printing an interview with Sen. Hillary Clinton, but also with a strongly presented editorial criticizing Democratic party frontrunner Sen. Barack Obama for failing, so far, to talk to local gay papers during the primaries. see Qnews summary: In interview with gay paper, Clinton says she'd defend gay rights as president; Obama silent The paper headlined its web-page story on the Clinton interview, "Clinton talks; Obama balks." Its criticism was even more pointed in the paper edition. PGN highlighted...
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Monday, April 07
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Source: Out , eCanadaNow.com , AfterElton.com Los Angeles -- Ellen DeGeneres has been named the most ‘Influential Gay Woman in America’ by Out magazine. The talk show host topped the magazine’s list of the most ‘Influential Gay Men and Women in America’ in their Power 50 issue. Former talk-show host and current cruise-ship impresario, Rosie O'Donnell rates spot #31 on the list. The magazine's editor's explain, "[W]hile Ellen's puppy palaver didn't even dent her popularity, Rosie's score dropped significantly when she stepped down as The View 's lightning rod."...
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Friday, April 04
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Source: Philadelphia Gay News , Associated Press , press release Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said she would defend gay rights as president and eliminate disparities for same-sex couples in federal law, including immigration and tax policy. Clinton said states such as New Jersey and Massachusetts are extending rights to gay couples "and the federal government should recognize that and should extend the same access to federal benefits across the board. I will very much work to achieve that." Clinton's comments came in an interview with the Philadelphia Gay News that was posted...
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Thursday, April 03
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Source: Editor and Publisher CHICAGO -- Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are battling it out for the Democratic Party presidential nomination at debates, luncheon speeches, bowling alleys -- and now, in the pages of gay and lesbian newspapers. Although Howard Dean in 2004 bought an ad in The Advocate, the national gay-oriented news magazine, Obama was the first to turn to the gay press in the current campaign, and -- according to his lead volunteer in outreach to the LGBT community -- the first presidential candidate ever to buy a campaign ad in a local gay paper. The ads, which ran in four papers...
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Wednesday, April 02
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Source: Out in Hollywood , the Daily Dish (SFGate) Jay Leno apologized last night for last week's bizarre bit with Ryan Phillippe on "The Tonight Show" when Ryan was on to promote his new movie "Stop-Loss." Jay brought up Ryan's early role as a gay teen on the ABC soap "One Life to Live." He asked Phillippe, "Can you give me your gayest look? Say that camera is Billy Bob ... Billy Bob has just ridden in shirtless from Wyoming." But the joke has backfired on Leno. Ryan looked instantly uncomfortable and said: "Wow. That is so something I don't...
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Monday, March 31
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Source: PinkNews Kiev, Ukraine -- Kiev's public prosecutor is targeting a well-regarded gay newspaper under laws banning the distribution of pornography, while newspaper kiosks across the city openly sell explicit erotic heterosexual magazines. Since 2003 Nash Mir, the oldest Ukrainian LGBT human rights organisation, has published Gay.Ua newspaper. In December 2007 the National Expert Commission of Ukraine on the Issues of Public Morality, ruled that Gay.Ua is a pornographic product. According to the commission, a picture of a man with an erect penis and a story on a sexual subject are pornography...
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Thursday, March 27
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Source: PageOneQ , NGBlog Kern's anti-gay rant Oklahoma Rep. Sally Kern (R-Oklahoma City), who said that the gay lifestyle is a bigger threat to America than terrorism, faced off against an openly gay pastor last Sunday in a debate on that delved into politics, theology, and scientific research. Kern, as expected, did not apologize or recant her words. Instead, she alternated between denial, clarification, and justification and at one point she even went so far as to present herself about knowing the bible more than Jones. The debate on KFOR TV's "Flash Point" featured Kern, host...
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Tuesday, March 25
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Source: AFP , Reuters RABAT -- A Moroccan court convicted Rachid Ninni, the boss of a daily newspaper, of libel Tuesday and ordered him to pay damages of six million dirhams (524,000 euros / 816,000 dollars) to four prosecutors. The court in the capital Rabat also told Ninni, managing editor of the Arabic-language Al Massae, to pay 120,000 dirhams as a fine to the state, and ruled that its verdict must be published in four newspapers, including his own. The editor said the paper would appeal the verdict and expressed concern that the authorities were using the courts to try and shut down a troublesome...
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Sunday, March 23
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Source: The Guardian It is fitting that Bishop Gene Robinson spent much of his Easter enduring the wintry conditions of the Great North Woods of New Hampshire, performing his ministry to small but loyal congregations. For although he is one of the few bishops who could claim to be a household name across the world's Anglican communion, he has been all but frozen out by the head of his church, the Archbishop of Canterbury. As the first bishop to speak openly about having a homosexual relationship, he has heard fellow Anglicans describe gays as "lower than beasts". London's The...
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Thursday, March 20
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Source: TIME Rita Mae Brown, foxhunting photo: RitaMaeBrown.com No one could ever accuse Rita Mae Brown, 63, of having lived a boring life. The bestselling author of 37 books is nothing if not versatile: feminist activist, mystery writer, lesbian pioneer, fox hunter, screenwriter, novelist, animal rescuer. She even became a tabloid star during her three-year relationship with tennis superstar Martina Navratilova. TIME's Andrea Sachs spoke with Brown, who was in Pennsylvania on tour for her latest book, The Purrfect Murder (Bantam). TIME: Your 1973 book Ruby Fruit Jungle was a groundbreaking...
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Tuesday, March 18
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Source: Reuters , Hollywood Reporter , Advocate , Playbill NEW YORK -- Rufus Wainwright, MTV Networks president Brian Graden and the CBS soap opera "As The World Turns" were among the big winners Monday at the 19th annual Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Media Awards (GLAAD). Television journalist Barbara Walters was honored for her reporting on transgender children and she said the award was among the most important she had even received. "You can forget all the Emmys," Walters said in accepting the award for television newsmagazine journalism at the ceremony in...
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Monday, March 10
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Source: Washington Blade King shooting The defining setting for anti-gay violence for the last decade was a rickety fence in a desolate Wyoming field. But a string of anti-gay beatings, shootings and killings in recent months shows that homophobic hatred didn’t disappear when Matthew Shepard was killed 10 years ago this October, nor is it confined to rural pockets of America’s heartland. In the last year alone, young gay people have died at the hands of straight friends in central Florida, been beaten to death after leaving a bar in Greenville, S.C., and assassinated in an eighth grade classroom...
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Wednesday, March 05
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Snapshots coming from most election coverage overlook LGBT voters. Even gay blogs mostly take advocacy positions for one candidate or the other without looking more broadly as LGBT voters as a possible "bloc." But a few stories from Texas offered snapshots of the vote with just that emphasis. In a story in today's paper, Washington Post reporter Jose Antonio Vargas offers a day-after report on the Texas primary by visiting a gay bar in Gun Barrel City, Texas, "small, quiet, conservative town of 5,000 about 50 miles southeast of Dallas". He finds there supporters of Hillary...
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Tuesday, March 04
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Source: BBC News , GayWired , The Sword , Angel's City Devil photo: BlakeMason.com (NSFW) where condoms are always used Porn producer Chi Chi Larue urges a boycott of porn titles that feature bareback sex photo via: Angel's City Devil Three gay porn films have been withdrawn from sale in Britain following an investigation by the BBC program Newsnight. The report looked into the health risks of so-called bareback gay porn, which shows men having unprotected sex. It follows concerns within the gay community that performers are being infected with HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases...
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Thursday, February 28
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Source: Indianapolis Star Bil Browning is the kind of guy who has a hard time finding motivation to keep a journal. Now, he writes all day for his blog, The Bilerico Project, one of the nation's top political Web sites for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community. The difference? For one, money. The Indianapolis man is one of just a few bloggers in the country who've managed to turn their hobby of spouting off online into an actual business. In just four years, The Bilerico Project has grown from a Web site about Indiana politics and the gay community to a national blog with...
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Thursday, February 28
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Source: Yemen Times In Morocco, articles published by the Arabic-language Al Massae daily have led to a strong division of the press. According to Said Essoulami, director of the Casablanca-based Centre for Media Freedom in the Middle East and North Africa, this controversy shows the difficulties of Moroccan media to cover sexual, cultural, political and ideological diversities. It all started in November 2007, when Al Massae reported on a supposed gay marriage ceremony that according to the paper had taken place in the small Ksar el Kebir town in the north of Morocco. Images shot at this private...
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Monday, February 25
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Source: Washington City Paper John Solomon took over the Washington Times on Jan. 28. But he arrived today, via a message from the paper’s copy operation. The news, in short: No more scare quotes. Longtime Washington Times readers know well what this is all about: Under the regime of Wesley Pruden , the Times , unwilling to acknowledge anything so radical and immoral as gay marriage, treated the term in its pages as gay “marriage.” Likewise other terms. In the old Washington Times , there were no illegal immigrants, just “illegal aliens”; no gays, just “homosexuals.” Now comes the following memo...
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Monday, February 18
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Source: Reuters KHARTOUM (Reuters) - When Ali started blogging that he was Sudanese and gay, he did not realize he was joining a band of African and Middle Eastern gays and lesbians who, in the face of hostility and repression, have come out online. Ali, who lists his home town as Khartoum but lives in Qatar, had plugged into a small, self-supporting network of people who have launched Web sites about their sexuality, while keeping their full identity secret. Caution is crucial - homosexual acts are illegal in most countries in Africa and the Middle East, with penalties ranging from long-term imprisonment...
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Wednesday, February 13
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Source: Reuters SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - They were playing in a movie, but marchers who gathered in San Francisco last week to recreate a 1970s gay rights protest were not just acting. Hundreds of people came to the Castro district, long favored by homosexual residents, to be extras in a movie that stars actor Sean Penn as Harvey Milk, the country's first prominent openly gay leader, who won election to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977. As much as on the past, the movie's marchers -- real-life members and supporters of San Francisco's famously strong gay community --...
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Tuesday, February 05
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Source: Guardian and PinkNews One of England's most senior bishops has argued that the Bible sanctions same-sex relationships, using the bonds between Jesus and John the disciple, and David and Jonathan as examples. The Bishop of Liverpool, the Right Rev James Jones, a conservative evangelical, expressed the views in an essay, A Fallible Church, in which he apologised for objecting to the appointment of the gay cleric Dr Jeffrey John as Bishop of Reading. The bishop also apologised for his conduct and its effect on John, who eventually withdrew his acceptance of the post after bowing to pressure...
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Tuesday, February 05
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Source: Afrol News , AFP via Africasia.com , Kenya Today Dakar -- Gay rights organizations, the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) and Pan-Africa ILGA, condemned the arrest and detention of several gay suspects in the Senegalese capital Dakar at the weekend, demanding the "immediate and unconditional release" of the men. In a letter to the Senegalese Minister of Justice, the organizations expressed outrage and concern over the issue. Senegalese security clamped down on the men after a popular local magazine, Icones, splashed photographs of what was described...
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